process notification message

[Anon]

Hi,

I want a way to notify the user that the page is downloading, instead of just blank the page only when it still process. Anyway to do it? Javascript?

Actually I am doing a Email system, some user might have 100++ mail to download at the same time, so the first page will blank when the webbased mail is still downloading the mail from POP. It cause some user wondering what happening.

Any suggestion or example is very appreaciate.

[jordan]

One option is to have one script display a message that says "please wait while your mail is downloaded," and write the mail to a temporary file, and when it's done downloading, show a link or button that says something like "Proceed" and have the page that it leads to read the mail from the temp file. Just one option.